mutually exclusive and independent events

[tougo]

it gives the same answer? didn't think it would

actually i meant (4/52)*(3/51) which has exactly the same as 12/2652

even if you take 51/3 = 17 ... (4/52)/17 = the same (funny variable moving )

sometimes iam not good at explaining things

[MXP]

Ahhhhhh, calculus, I don't remember a thing and I took it 2 years ago. That's the sucky thing about it. Once the semester's over, so is everything you learned in calculus

How could you forget Calculus? Maybe it's just me but the farther I go in math the easier, I find, it is to retain new material.

Besides, Calculus has lots of diagrams to go with it.

[tougo]

Maybe it's just me but the farther I go in math the easier, I find, it is to retain new material.

depends on the new material

i.e. my main concern now is topology and i admit i have forgotten a lot things from simper maths

[C++]

Ahhhhhh, calculus, I don't remember a thing and I took it 2 years ago. That's the sucky thing about it. Once the semester's over, so is everything you learned in calculus

How could you forget Calculus? Maybe it's just me but the farther I go in math the easier, I find, it is to retain new material.

Besides, Calculus has lots of diagrams to go with it.

I haven't used it at all after I was done with the class, and I have absolutely no intrest in it. I remember everything from my discrete mathematics class which I took at the same time I was taking calculus 2 and that's cuz it's actually fun & it's applied in lots of my computer courses

[MXP]

But Calculus was just so fun! Isn't that enough?

[tougo]

But Calculus was just so fun! Isn't that enough?

I consider having fun by studying/solving math problems the best thing that can happen to someone. I still have a long way to get there.

calculus it may be one of the most interesting things in math.
but usually people tend to like something only if it can be applied it to the real world. calculus can be applied but not in every day life.

anyway

[Kramer55]

is calculus something that can increase your programming ability?
especially w/ C++?

[tougo]

is calculus something that can increase your programming ability?
especially w/ C++?

if you want to make a game for example (especially a 3d one). yes things will certainly look easier if you know calculus.

[C++]

But Calculus was just so fun! Isn't that enough?

meh, I could remember the very basic stuff if i thought hard enough, but there's no way I could remember how to take derivatives the long way, or do those volume stuff....

I do enjoy math, just not the calculus part of it

[MXP]

Humph.

Kramer55, Calculus has applications but for many projects you wont need it. I'm pretty sure that even in 3D programming the use of Calculus is limited. I find that Algebra, Geometry, and Trigonometry are the most important.

[C++]

Humph.

Kramer55, Calculus has applications but for many projects you wont need it. I'm pretty sure that even in 3D programming the use of Calculus is limited. I find that Algebra, Geometry, and Trigonometry are the most important.

there you go, algebra, geometry, and trigonometry.....now those I like

[tougo]

"The" calculus is the branch of mathematics studying the rate of change of quantities and the length, area, and volume of objects. So, there are a lot of applications that one can find uses of it.

Geometry on the other hand is a very interesting subject if studied in depth; there is a lot more interesting things in geometry than those that one learns in school; i.e. non-Euclidean geometry like Spherical geometry

My point even if it is a weak one, is that everything is equally important in math. You can't ignore something.

Anyway